Opening this one today and I am sure we will get our usual wonderful pics from you all.The great thing about this forum is you can love a picture for so many different reasons. It is a joy to see the diversity. Thanks all for your wonderful input.

So it doesn't vanish in a few hours here's one for tomorrow (it's nearly midnight). This road in St Mary Cray turned out to be blocked and had to turn round soon after this point and find another route. There's a cemetery on the right next to a railway line.

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Taken off Midway Rd. and Park Blvd. in Plano, at Prestonwood Baptist Church. They put this up each year, and I finally got a picture of it!

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Whilst idly rummaging through the many cases and crates of "stuff" my husband packed away in the attic after clearing his deceased mother's house, I stumbled across this little treasure:

Now, I must plug it in to see if it still works (I suspect it will), but it weighs a tonne, and I can hardly lift it. will have to wait till hubby has a spare half an hour so that he can carry it down for me.

Aaah, but if I tap on the keys at present, they don't move! The carriage return (and its little ding-ding bell) work just fine. I assumed it needed to me plugged in for the keyboard to work. There must be something else not right...

A bit of oil, perhaps, to unjam the keys? Or even more vigourous tapping? I learned to type on one similar to this, and some force is necessary I'd have a hard time with this one though, as the keyboard isn't QWERTYUIOP! The German machine I used to have, with the A and Z reversed, was bad enough!

There's a motor on the left hand side, ren, towards the back, you can just about see it sticking out there in the photo.

And well spotted, spanishliz, it is an AZERTY keyboard, the usual layout here in France. I learned to type on a QWERTY and manipulate both types every single day now for the last 6 or 7 years (QWERTY at home and AZERTY at work), I still manage to mix up which one I'm using at any particular time ... (hence a good few of my typos)

I learnt to type on a similar machine to that - and you need a lot of force to get the keys to work compared to today's keyboards - a bit of WD40 perhaps would help free it up. Having had another look I can't see a carriage return handle at all, and it does look like a motor on the side, so perhaps it is an early electric.

I spent ages looking for a couple of corner display carbinets. Everything I found was either way too expensive or the wrong size. Eventually got a pair of these at the local auction for the bargain price of £25 for the two.